I've been afraid something like this was true, but I haven't wanted to believe it. But I see more signs all the time, & here's Maureen Dowd coming right out with it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/opinion/20DOWD.html?th
(I just found out M. Dowd is a Pulitzer prize winner. I didn't know that.)
clint